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Module 02

Module 02. Roles of the ESP Practitioners. What’s Inside Roles of the ESP Practitioners - as teacher - as researcher - as collaborator - as course designer and material provider - as evaluator. ESP Practitioners as teacher

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Module 02

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  1. Module 02 Roles of the ESP Practitioners

  2. What’s Inside Roles of the ESP Practitioners - as teacher - as researcher - as collaborator - as course designer and material provider - as evaluator

  3. ESP Practitioners as teacher The teacher is not in the position of being the ‘primary knower’ of the carrier content of the material. The students may, in many cases, know more about the content than the teacher. This provides ESP teacher with the opportunity to draw on students’ knowledge to generate a genuine communication in the classroom.

  4. ESP Practitioners as researcher An ESP practitioner has to go beyond the first stage of the need analysis – target situation analysis (TSA) to observe as far as possible the situation in which students use the identified skills, and analyze samples of the identified texts.

  5. ESP Practitioners as collaborator • A simply cooperation • Specific collaboration • Full Collaboration (where a subject expert and a language teacher team-teach classes)

  6. ESP Practitioners as course designer and material provider Teacher is responsible to choose suitable material, adapting material (when it is not suitable) or even writing material where nothing suitable exists.

  7. ESP Practitioners as evaluator If testing involved in the ESP courses, an ESP teacher should be able to devise achievement test to assess how much learners have gained from a course. Evaluating course design and teaching materials should be done while the course is being taught, at the end of the course and after the course has finished.

  8. ESP Practitioners as multi-disciplinary activity ESP work and research has touched many areas such as cultural aspects, and cross-cultural communication, which have a great impact on the teaching of Business English.

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